Improved compound for tanning



em a fitting gaunt @ffiw. m M -ee- SAMUEL LUSTEN, OF LINESVILL'E, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 83,07 3, dated October 13, 1868. l

IIVEPROVED COMPOUND FOR. TANNING.

W The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

1 m To all whom it may concern One-half pound of chrome-yellow. Be it known that I, SAMUEL LUSTEN, of Lines- Q P of extract Smart-Weedville, in the county of Crawford, in the State of Penn- ,SIX quarts of common sa1t. sylvania, haye invented a new and improved Tennin- All P 111 hot Water and mlXed together- Liquor 01 G01I1p01111d for Tanning Leather; and I do This @0111P01l11d m31y used with Without the herebydeolare that the following is a full and exact usual bark used 111 tanlllng, and by 171115 compound,

description thereof. hides may be tanned in from four to six weeks.

7 My compound is com os d f th f ll i i \Vhztt claim as my invention, and desire to secure dients, to wit: For one barrel of the compound, F l Is as follows, to W113:

Five pounds of ja i a, I claim the compound composed of the above ingre- .Three pounds of Glauber salts. dients, combined 111 the proportions set forth. Two pounds of alum. 'SAMUEL LUSTEN. One-fourth pound of saltpetre or nitre. Witnesses: Three pounds of sulphur. Ron Rmsmenn, Two pounds of yellow ochre. A. B. RICHMOND. 

